Week 2 Assignment Quizes

Question 1

In the process of conducting a literature review, the nurse researcher is using studies written by the researchers who conducted the studies. This type of information source is known as:

Answer 1

Primary

Question 2

When conducting a literature review, it is important to locate relevant studies. One bibliographic database that is particularly helpful to nurse researchers is CINAHL:

True or false

Answer 2

True

Question 3

The primary purpose of a research literal review is: Select all that apply

Construct a conceptual framework

Develop recommendations for future research

Suggest appropriate research methods

Collect data about target population

Assist in developing the research question

Answer 3

Construct a conceptual framework

Suggest appropriate research methods

Assist in developing the research question

Question 4

Derek is considering where he will search for literature. Given his research question he identifies Medline as the best place to start. Which stage of the literature review process does this represent

Answer 4

Devise search strategy

Question 5

Molly keeps detailed notes to track her literature review process. She uses a note to capture a running bibliography of the papers she retrieves. Which stage of the literature review process does this step represent?

Answer 5

Document search decisions and actions

Question 6

After Sandra read the full text of each source, she asked details about relevant articles to the matrix the process helps her pool out the most important details from the article, including the findings in her own personal reading the article. Which stage of the literature review process does this represent??

Answer 6

Abstract

Question 7

Sophia uses Boolean operators in wildcard character is to expand her search results as she navigates each database. Which stage of the literature review process does this represent?

Answer 7

Search for identify and retrieve potential primary source materials

Question 8

Diana looks across all of the research she’s reviewed and considers questions such as, what is the pattern of evidence?, How much evidence is there?, And what type of people or settings does this evidence apply?.
Which stage of the literature review process does this represent?

Answer 8

Evaluate and analyze studies

Question 9

A nurse is completing a literature review. The nurse has several ideas for a focus, but has not nail down a specific topic to examine. Which step would be most helpful to follow this stage of the process?

Review abstracts for articles

Retrieve and print source materials

Screen and read articles

Formulate a clear research question

Answer 9

Formulate a clear research question

Question 10

When beginning a literature search for relevant evidence, the researcher select status basis to review. Which database is most likely to include nursing studies?

Answer 10

CINAHL

Question 11

A nurse is looking across all of the studies review today and ask questions such as what is the pattern of evidence, how much evidence is there, how consistent is the evidence? The nurses and what stage of the literature review process?

Answer 11

Evaluate and analyze the studies

Question 12

When conducting a research literature search, which activity is the most reliable way to identify new scholarly references?

Review materials and commercial websites

Change topics and use new key terms.

No relevance citations in the article is being reviewed.

Search novel Internet websites for up-to-date information.

Answer 12

Not relevant citations in the article is being reviewed.

Question 13

A nurse is trying to produce the best search results possible using keyword searches. What is an appropriate tip to provide in order to achieve this goal? Select all that apply:

Create an abstract

Use wildcard characters

Create a presentation to summarize results

Analyze and evaluate studies

Use Boolean Logic (example: and/or operators)

Answer 13

Use wildcard characters

Use Boolean Logic

Question 14

Once the nurse research your house devised a search strategy and retrieved potential primary source materials, the next step is to discard irrelevant or inappropriate references. True or false

Answer 14

False

Question 15

A nurse researcher is interested in finding information about pancreatic cancer on an electronic database. One of the first task she must undertake to begin the database search for the desired information is:

Identify references

Document search decisions

Select key words

Read study abstracts

Answer 15

Select keywords

Question 16

The Medline database uses a vocabulary called MeSH to index articles. True or false

Answer 16

True

Question 17

After entering a keyword into the Medline database, the search results yielded 10,100 results one method to restrict search results is to use a:

Different database

Boolean operators

New research question

Mapping

Answer 17

Boolean Operators

Question 18

Sophia was instructed to use pub med as her database for literature search what should Sophia’s next step be?

Answer 18

She should devise a search strategy

Question 19

What a nurse contacts a literature search, what is the advantage of having a well-thought-out search strategy? Select all that apply

Locate a large number of general references

Expand the scope of the search

Locates more relevant and useful resources

Decreases frustration

Saves time

Answer 19

Locates more relevant and useful resources

Decreases frustration

Saves time

Question 20

A researcher has narrowed a search of electronica data bases to 15 potential references. Which action in the screening process would be the most appropriate next step and identifying useful articles?

Evaluating search terms

Reading the reports in their entirety

Reviewing the abstracts

Comparing databases for duplicate referenced reports

Answer 20

Reading the reports in their entirety

Question 21

When the nurse searches for the nursing topics, what electronica data base includes the most nursing literature

Answer 21

CINAHL

Question 22

A researcher begins the searching process by entering key terms. The search shields over 180 potential articles. Which action in the screening process would be the most appropriate next step and identifying useful articles?

Read the abstract of each article to narrow down the number of articles

Review some of the studies for alternate keywords

Identify mesh terms in making keywords more specific

Leave out keywords in the neck search phrase

Answer 22

Identify mesh terms and making keywords more specific

Question 23

In conducting a subject Search in an electronica database, the nurse would most likely initiate the search by typing in:

A research design

And authors name

A keyword or phrase

The name of a journal

Answer 23

A key word or phrase

Question 24

Which of the following are major components of a research report using the I MRAD format? Select all that apply

Introduction

Results

Analysis

Discussion

Methods

Answer 24

Everything except analysis

Question 25

What are the features of a well written research question? Select all that apply

Specifies the study population

Appropriately worded

Includes multiple dependent variables

Clearly and concisely stated

Identify key variables

Answer 25

Everything except includes multiple dependent variables

Question 26

Which element is least likely to affect evidence quality in a research study?

Data analysis methods

Handling of ethical concerns

Research design

Sampling methods

Answer 26

Handling of ethical concerns

Question 27

Problem statement

Answer 27

Describes the need for the study, such as a gap and knowledge

Question 28

Statement of purpose

Answer 28

Summary of the study goals

Question 29

Research question

Answer 29

Specific inquiry that the researcher wants to answer

Question 30

Hypothesis

Answer 30

Predictions that the researchers are testing

Question 31

Research Ames

Answer 31

Specific objectives of the study is to Accomplish

Question 32

Which research hypothesis is stated most appropriately:

Night Shift increases odds of medication administration errors with ICU patients

Nurse to patient ratio is negatively associated with psychiatric patient outcomes

Pre-operative clinic visit is positively correlated with postoperative infection rates.

Nursing experience is related to higher rates of burn out and fatigue

Answer 32

The Night Shift one

Question 33

Which of the following is a feature of a well written research problem statement?

It is entangled in the literature review.

It builds a persuasive argument.

It is insignificant to nursing.

It contrasts with the research method.

Answer 33

It builds a persuasive argument

Question 34

Which of the following is the best title for a research study article?

The comparison of two recovery room warring methods for hypothermia patients who had undergone spinal surgery

Intervention study of radiant warmers in warm cotton blankets to rewarm postoperative hypothermia patients.

Effectiveness of radiant warmers versus warm cotton blankets and post operative spinal surgery patients with hypothermia

Study trial of methods to treat postoperative hypothermia in spinal surgery patients

Answer 34

Effectiveness of radiant warmers…

Question 35

In 2019 research study of a mindfulness intervention included a literature review of predominantly original research reports from 2012 through 2016 that indicates a gap of nursing knowledge at a richer review met which of the following criteria?

It is a comprehensive synthesis of evidence

It justifies the need for a new study

It is considered up-to-date

It is based mainly on primary sources

Answer 35

It consist mainly of primary sources

Question 36

Descriptive theories are deducted and describe the characteristics of individuals or groups by summarizing there commonalities. True or false

Answer 36

false

Question 37

Maslow’s hierarchy of needs is an example of a middle range nursing theory developed by a nurse to describe the phenomenon of interest and nurses

Answer 37

False

Question 38

A healthcare system is interested in improving health promoting activities for its employees. The research team is investigating a theoretical model to serve as a basis for conducting a study to determine factors that affect health promoting activities in healthcare workers which Siri would be best to use it conducting the study?

Orem’s self care theory

Uncertainty in illness theory

Social cognitive theory

Health promotion model

Answer 38

Health promotion model

Question 39

A nurse researcher wants to determine whether there is a relationship between levels of anxiety and blood pressure in a population of men between the ages of 40 and 60 years. Which theory with the researcher used to support this study?

Predictive

Middle range

Explanatory

Descriptive

Answer 39

Explanatory

Question 40

If theoretical framework is made up of…

Answer 40

Is made up of a number of interrelated statements that attempt to describe, explain, or predict a phenomenon. It is brighter than hypothesis, a rationale for design, or a statement of clinical significance.

Question 41

Which theory used in nursing assumes that Carative consist of curative factors and can only be affectively demonstrated interpersonally?

Answer 41

Jean Watson’s theory of caring

Question 42

What is the name of the theory that stands on the premise that there are similarities and experiencing different symptoms among different groups and in different situations?

Answer 42

Theory of unpleasant symptoms

Question 43

Which theory focuses on making sense of system characteristics to create a common framework that has meaning across multiple disciplines

Answer 43

General systems theory

Question 44

Which theory six to explain human motivation using a hierarchy of needs, stating that the most basic of human needs must be met before higher level needs to reach?

Answer 44

Maslow’s theory

Question 45

Which theory rest on the assumption that people are distinct individuals that should be self-reliant and responsible for their own care and, when needed, the care of others and their family?

Answer 45

Orem’s self-care Theory

Question 46

A researcher studies the effect of therapeutic mattress on the incidence of pressure ulcers in debilitated clients. What type of Theory would does research draw from?

Answer 46

Predictive theory

Question 47

A nurse studies how theoretical frameworks relate to research. What factor is part of a theoretical framework?

Plan for searching the literature on the topic

Description of the statistical analysis that will be done

Proposed relationships between the variables in a study design

Operational definition of how the variables will be measured

Answer 47

Close relationships between the variables in a study design

Question 48

A researcher studies a theory about the grieving process which identifies its major elements or events. What type of theory would this be?

Answer 48

Descriptive theory

Question 49

When studying caring in nursing focusing on the caring between the tires and the client which theories will be the most interest of the researcher?

Answer 49

Jean Watsons theory

Question 50

A researcher explores how social support is related to health in older adults. What type of theory would this issue relate to?

Answer 50

Explanatory Theory

Question 51

The nurse recognizes that a high-quality literature review any research study should contain which of the following? Select all that apply

Clearly developed ideas

Source is not more than five years old

Paraphrased idea

Lengthy quotes from the literature

Sources that include newspaper editorials

Answer 51

Paraphrased ideas

Question 52

Caleb the staff nurse is preparing to write a literature review about the causes of medication errors. Which of the following is important for Caleb to incorporate as he writes a literature review?

Including as many studies as possible to prove the hypothesis

Using money direct quotes to convey ideas

Including unbiased studies that offer conflicting evidence

Describing each study in detail

Answer 52

Including conflicting studies

Question 53

The staff nurse performed a literature search for evidence-based articles related to causes of medication errors. Which of the following actions would he take to determine the relevance of the articles he found?

Using articles found exclusively in the CINAHL database

Reading the article abstract

Contrasting the Medline database in the CINAHL database

Evaluating the Boolean operators to locate the articles

Answer 53

Reading the article abstract

Question 54

A researcher designs a study to explore coping behaviors in caring for patients with serious diagnoses. Which theory would best fit this research design?

Answer 54

Middle Range Theory

Question 55

After reading the article suggested by a coworker the nurse from the video recognizes that which of the statements concerning frameworks are true. Select all that apply

If theoretical framework is the same as a conceptual framework

Frameworks are usually clearly stated in quantitative studies

All studies have a framework

Frameworks maybe implicit or explicit

Frameworks are implicit in quality of studies

Answer 55

I’ll studies have a framework

Frameworks maybe and put in a explicit

Question 56

A researcher hypothesized that students transferred classroom material to clinical practice when they determined that the classroom material was useful. Knowles adult learning theory was used as the theoretical framework for the study. The researchers study does one in relation to Knowles theory?

Answer 56

Supports the theory

Question 57

A nurse is reading an article on models in theories in nursing research. The nurse with a bachelor of science in nursing understands the both models in theories are:

Highly structured

Helpful and that they use concrete examples to explain phenomena

Useful in Generating hypotheses

Represented by concept maps

Answer 57

Useful in generating hypothesis